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How to skip floppy error without keyboard?

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  • 30-06-2011 12:12am
    #1
    choons
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭


    I'm on a J1 and some lad was throwing out an old Compaq PC. I hooked it up to a TV and I'm planning on using it to watch movies.

    Thing is I have no keyboard and theres no point in buying one because I'm only here for a few more weeks.

    Problem is when I try to boot the computer it says 'floppy error, hit xxx to continue'. There is a floopy drive but I don't have a floppy cable.

    Is there any way around this? All I have is a mouse. I've no problem shorting a few wires if thats what it takes!

    Let me know if i should have posted in Building/upgrading or Overclocking/Modding!


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    #2
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    You can get a keyboard here for a tenner.. You'd surely pick up a free one somewhere, from a recycling place or something.. Plus if you only have a mouse you're gonna need to become an expert in the "on screen keyboard" very quickly...

    There may be somewhere that you can turn off the keybaord test in the BIOS, but you will need an F2 key (and thus a keyboard) to get in to the BIOS in the first place..


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    ArtyM
    Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Yup,
    You are pretty much lost without a keyboard. Your bios settings state that there is a floppy drive, so the error will continue until you either get a keyboard or a floppy cable.
    No way around this.
    Either one could be got for next to nothing - I would recommend the keyboard and disable the floppy drive in the BIOS.


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    #4
    choons
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭choons


    Thanks for the replies.

    Picked up a keyboard for $10 in Kmart and everything is running along nicely!

    VGA cable was $14 in Staples and I ordered a network cable on ebay for 99c . . . Full media center for under $25 - Sweet :D


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